| Steely Dan Countdown To Ecstasy |  | Artist: Steely Dan
Label: Mca
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Sales Rank: 1,442
Format: Original recording remastered
Language: English (Original Language)
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 008811188726
EAN: 0008811188726
ASIN: B00000DI0J
Release Date: November 17, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Bodhisattva | | • | Razor Boy | | • | The Boston Rag | | • | Your Gold Teeth | | • | Show Biz Kids | | • | My Old School | | • | Pearl Of The Quarter | | • | King Of The World |
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Product Description
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) paper sleeve pressing. Universal. 2008.
Amazon.com essential recording
The only element of sophomore slump in Steely Dan's second album was the disappointing sales response upon its initial release in 1974. Musically, Countdown to Ecstasy is even stronger than the Dan's terrific debut, pushing the musical envelope with more complex jazz harmonies and intricate time signatures, and carrying their lyrics into even more shadowy realms peppered with sci-fi imagery and street-level slang. The songs are stunning, from the opening blast of "Boddhisattva," a Zen boogie fueled by Denny Dias's and Jeff Baxter's angular, bopping guitars, to the postnuclear apocalypse of "King of the World." In between, they deliver the one-two punch of "Show Biz Kids," with its perfect snapshot of affluent decadence, and "My Old School," in which college daze is remembered through a collision of staccato guitar and blazing horns. --Sam Sutherland
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